Tunde Adebimpe explores ‘tenderness and rage’ on debut solo album
Nearly 25 years ago, Brooklyn band TV on the Radio took over the airwaves and MTV with their haunting, near-operatic synth-rock. Tracks like “Staring at…
Tell us: When did you officially feel like a ‘local’ in L.A.?
Seven years ago, after visiting Los Angeles nearly every summer to spend time with relatives and friends, I took the plunge and finally moved from…
Stevie Nicks is ‘not pulling any punches’ on her new album
Stevie Nicks is at work on a new album filled with “memories of mine of fantastic men.”“I have seven songs, and they are autobiographical real…
AC/DC bring high voltage rock ‘n’ roll hits to the masses at the Rose Bowl
Precious few bands can fill a stadium 52 years into their career — let alone play to an audience heavily populated by parents and their…
Six decades later, Ramón Ayala is still the king of the accordion
Ramón Ayala knows he’s on borrowed time.The 79-year-old accordionist and bandleader has been battling a bevy of health issues stemming from diabetes. He’s collapsed onstage…
Wink Martindale dead: ‘Tic-Tac-Dough,’ ‘Gambit’ game show host dies
Wink Martindale, the king of the television game show who hosted “Tic-Tac-Dough,” “Gambit,” “High Rollers” and a slew of other programs that became staples in…
Jennie from Blackpink shines as a solo act with an eclectic set at Coachella
Without a hugely popular HBO vacation-murder show to lean on, Jennie of Blackpink arguably had the harder job of her band’s two solo shows this…
Lady Gaga proves she’s music’s greatest kook in campy Coachella thriller
Lady Gaga looked proud enough to weep.Peering out at the vast audience before her at Coachella on Friday night, the pop superstar paused about 45…
Venezuelan band Rawayana basks in success after clashing with Maduro
MEXICO CITY — Rawayana, a band composed of Venezuelan émigrés whose trippy, Caribbean-soaked pop has earned it global acclaim, was riding high. Late last year the group…
Coachella 2025: Lisa, already a Coachella headliner in Blackpink, breaks out as a solo star
To think that Mike White didn’t know who Lisa was and had reservations about casting her.The “White Lotus” creator might not have been a Blink…
Ginger Spice Geri Halliwell-Horner on new YA novel in trilogy
On the Shelf Rosie Frost: Ice on Fire By Geri Halliwell-HornerPhilomel Books: 464 pages, $19If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may…
The Go-Go’s are back again, still real, raw and ready for Coachella and Cruel World
Perhaps no one is more excited about the reunited Go-Go’s upcoming slate of high-profile gigs than Gina Schock. The 67-year-old drummer missed the band’s last…
British singer Cleo Sol takes fans to church during debut L.A. show
After years of quietly releasing center stage-worthy music yet averting the spotlight, British singer-songwriter Cleo Sol made her long-awaited debut on Friday night at the…
j-hope of BTS on being the first solo Korean act headlining BMO Stadium
You would think most people would need a break after spending 18 months in the military. But most people aren’t international pop stars such as…
‘White Lotus’ ooh-loo-loses composer after Mike White feud
What would “White Lotus” be without its titillating score and those warbled “ooh-loo-loo-loo’s?” That will no longer concern the series’ original composer Cristobal Tapia de…
Role Model talks ‘Kansas Anymore’ deluxe, Maine and saying goodbye
Role Model answered the phone while pacing around a Holiday Inn Express gym. The 27-year-old singer explained that he was trying to get a workout…
Remember This Banger: Selena's 'Dreaming of You'
Thirty years after the singer’s death, we look back on the song that encapsulated what could’ve been. Source link
Liked Chappell Roan’s ‘The Giver’? 8 tracks to expand your queer country taste
“Do they know that chaps are gay?”Chappell Roan playfully posed that question to the host of Apple Music’s “Today’s Country” radio show, Kelleigh Bannen. Following…
South Africa president says persecution of whites is ‘false narrative’
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said Monday the claim that white people are being persecuted in his country is a “completely false…
Lucy Dacus on L.A., Boygenius and ‘Forever Is a Feeling’
Lucy Dacus sits at a picnic table in Elysian Park blinking against the sun on a windy afternoon in early March. Last night, the 29-year-old…